Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-02-17

~ Some crank in the Signal, who il
ashamed TO give his name, Withholding ii fol
fear of letting people know his ignorance, il
blatting about the Co. Commissioners. For
he certainly does show his Ignorance TO good
advantage when he goes on to say in a ram
bling way; "Such being the fact, they (the Co.
COMMISSIONER paid themselves over S3.lO
per day for 965 days, or every day of the year,
Sundays and all, or must have set up nights
to get in more days work than can be figured
of the total year"
II is always supposed person who appears
in a newspaper with his sayings is one of in
telligence and knows whereof he speaks, but
the individual who penDed the above SEN
tence is either an ignoramus or a demagogue
who is trying to mislead the common people
for party ends. The latter is probably the
correct view of the matter, for his article
from beginning to end savors of a bid for the
people to elect Republican as County Com
missioner. We believe the people of Henry
county have on several occasions placed in
the commissioners Office Republican and
found it dear experience, so much so that it
will be a cold day indeed when another slips
in.
But, say County Commissioner did re-
ceive compensation of $1,000 a year, it is
not saying that he charged for every day in
the year, Sundays included, as this writer
leads the people to believe. The law gives a
County Commissioner not only SO per day,
but gives him mileage and expenses. For an
example: The law gives juryman $2.OOper
day; say he puts in three days, that would be
5000, but when he comes to draw his fees he
is paid $3.50; why is this, simply because the
law gives him mileage, and instead of 81 a
day he actually gets $2 50. 1t is just so in the
case of the commissioners.
Our County Commissioners are busy set
of men, and are almost the entire time look
ing after the interests of the county. Henry
county is situated different from most coun-
ties in the State. We have an immense
amount of ditching to do, and have more
bridges to look after than any other county
in the State, or as many as any other county.
The commissioners are required to travel
many miles, over good and bad roads, and
what the law gives them is not exorbitant
pay. They are the poorest paid officials of
all the county officers-and receive thousands
of curses where another official will receive
ten. We have an excellent board of Commits
sioners, men who are strictly attending to
the best interests of the county, and we be-
lieve the people of the county, outside of a
few grumblers and Republican demagogues,
are satisfied.
But to make this matter more plain, and to
show the utter shallowness of the Signal cor
respondent, we quote the law, as follows:
Each county commissioner shall be allow
ed three dollars for each day that he is en-
ployed in his official duties, and five cents
per mile for his necessary travel for each
regular or called session, not exceeding one
session each month, or twelve in any one
year, and five cents per mile when travelling
within their respective counties on official
business. Each commissioner in
all other counties except those having, by the
last federal census, population of one hun
dred and ninety-fve thousand or upwards,
and those having by the laft federal census a
population of eighty-six thousand, seven
hundred and ninety-seven (86,797), and no
more, for his services, when necessarily en-
gagged in attending to the business of the
county pertaining to his Office under the di-
rection of the board, other than in attending
regular or called sessions of the board, and
when necessary to travel on official business
out of his county, shall be allowed in addi-
tion to his compensation and milage as here
inbefore provided, any other reasonable and
necessary expense actually paid in the dis
charge of his official duty. \